Impressions: …of Facebook taking my privacy away

Lately, the talk worldwide has been about who owns personal data people save on Facebook. Facebook, for starters is this social networking website established, am told in 2004, though I came to know about it, just like you, in 2008 (it doesn’t mean that I live four years behind the rest of the World). Facebook was founded by a 24 year old Mark Zuckerburg (He is now the Worlds youngest self-made- Billionaire by the way, worth about $1.9bn) and 3 of his roommates at Harvard University, they launched the site on February 4, 2004 from their college dorm room. Since then, me and the rest of you living in the ‘Dot-com’ era have not looked back. We have pounced on the site like it adds some kind of indemnity to our lives. Millions of photos have been uploaded on the site and all kinds of data classified as ‘personal’ including relationship status. While I am not envious of this guy for having utilised the space in his campus room than I did (extra space in my room was for cups and plates), I am worried that this fellow and his peers can use our data in anyway they want since they have 100% access to it 24/7. I don’t trust American boys; they have the capacity to use and manipulate pictures of beautiful girls and put them on all sorts of unclean websites. But then Facebook is not my problem, the real problem is that every time I click, every moment I upload a photo, or when I change my relationship status, money enters the boys account while on the other end, I am becoming poorer and poorer. The Boy is really a genius! How did he even think of inventing the site when the rest of us have failed to manage or even start a web blog? I have a friend who accused me of being too young to be on Facebook and I wish she could know what she is missing. All I know she is safe from the eyes of FBI and CIA boys who are apparently watching every move we make on Facebook but definitely she is missing some of the weird statements people make on the site. By studying what people say on their FB (Facebook) pages, you can actually judge them and know which personalities they possess. For example if your friends’ status messages are always full of sexual connotations as well as the comments they make on other people’s messages, then know they are in no doubt perverts. That’s why a Young boy in the US who had issues with a teacher was suspended indefinitely after writing that ‘Professor John Sucks’ on his Facebook Page. Another boy wrote ‘Andrew is a disaster waiting to happen’ and the next day he shot dead a classmate over a Girl he had earlier had a crush on. So if your Picture on Facebook looks like that of Osama bin Laden, the next time you see FBI coming for you don’t complain because am told he is also on Facebook or if your status message reads like ‘am having a crush on so and so..’, we know the player in you. Ends